Be active in your troop, team, crew, or
ship for a period of at least 6 months after you have achieved the rank
of Life Scout.

Demonstrate that you live by the principles
of the Scout Oath and Law in your daily life. List the names of individuals
who know you personally and would be willing to provide a recommendation
on your behalf, including parents/guardians, religious, educational, and
employer references.

While a Life Scout, serve actively in your
unit for a period of 6 months in one or more of the following positions
of responsibility:

Boy Scout troop.

Patrol leader,

assistant senior patrol leader,

senior patrol leader,

Venture patrol leader,

troop guide,

Order of the Arrow troop representative,

den chief,

scribe,

librarian,

historian,

quartermaster,

junior assistant Scoutmaster,

chaplain aide,

instructor,

Webmaster, or

Leave No Trace trainer

Varsity Scout team.

Captain,

cocaptain,

program manager,

squad leader,

team secretary,

Order of the Arrow team representative,

librarian,

historian

quartermaster,

chaplain aide,

instructor, or

den chief.

Webmaster, or

Leave No Trace trainer

Venturing crew / Sea Scout
ship.

President,

vice president,

secretary,

treasurer,

quartermaster

historian

den chief,

guide

boatswain,

boatswain's mate,

yeoman,

purser,

storekeeper

Webmaster, or

Leave No Trace trainer

While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in
a service project helpful to
any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project must
benefit an organization other than Boy Scouting.) A project proposal must
be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your unit leader
and unit committee, and the council or district before you start. You must
use the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, BSA
publication No. 512-927, in meeting this requirement. (To learn more about
the Eagle Scout service project, see the Guide to Advancement,
topics 9.0.2.0 through 9.0.2.16.)

Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.

Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review. In preparation
for your board of review, prepare and attach to your Eagle Scout Rank Application
a statement of your ambitions and life purpose and a listing of positions
held in your religious institution, school, camp, community, or other organizations,
during which you demonstrated leadership skills. Include honors and awards
received during this service. (This requirement may be met after age 18;
see below.)

* You must choose only one merit badge listed in items (g) and (j). If
you have earned more than one of the badges listed in items (g) and (j), choose
one and list the remaining badges to make your total of 21.

AGE REQUIREMENT ELIGIBILITY

Merit badges, badges of rank, and Eagle Palms may be earned by a registered
Boy Scout, Varsity Scout, or Venturer. He may earn these awards until
his 18th birthday. Any Venturer who has achieved the First Class rank
as a Boy Scout in a troop or Varsity Scout in a team may continue working up
to his 18th birthday toward the Star, Life, and Eagle Scout ranks and Eagle
Palms. An Eagle Scout board of review may occur, without special approval, within
three months after the 18th birthday. Local councils must preapprove those held
three to six months afterward. To initiate approval, the candidate, his parent
or guardian, the unit leader, or a unit committee member attaches to the application
a statement explaining the delay. Consult the Guide to Advancement
in the case where a board of review is to be conducted more than six months
after a candidate’s 18th birthday.

If you have a permanent physical or mental disability, or a disability expected
to last more than two years, or beyond age 18, you may become an Eagle Scout
by qualifying for as many required merit badges as you can and qualifying for
alternative merit badges for the rest. If you seek to become an Eagle Scout
under this procedure, you must submit a special application to your local council
service center. Your application must be approved by your council advancement
committee before you can work on alternative merit badges.

A Scout or Venturer with a disability may work toward rank advancement after
he is 18 years of age if he meets the guidelines outlined in the Guide to Advancement.

Upcoming change

Cooking Merit Badge to Be Required for Eagle Starting Jan. 1, 2014

Effective Jan. 1, 2014, the Cooking merit badge will be required to obtain
the Eagle Scout rank. Regardless of when a Scout earned the Life rank or
began working toward Eagle, unless he fulfills all the rank requirements—with
the exception of his board of review— before Jan. 1, 2014, he must earn
the Cooking merit badge to become an Eagle Scout.

Note: This means that as of January 1, 2014, the
number of "Eagle required" merit badges will be 13, instead of 12, and the
number of "Optional" badges will drop to 8. In addition, this change to
the Eagle required list will result in another change to the footnote to
requirement 3 for the Star and Life ranks. Once the Cooking merit badge
becomes required, the footnote will be changed as follows: "* Choose
any of the 1617 required
merit badges in the 1213
categories to fulfill requirement 3."

VENTURERS and SEA SCOUTS

The requirements above are those for boys enrolled as members of Boy Scout
Troops (including Venture Patrols within Troops) or Varsity Scout Teams. The
following requirements apply to boys registered in the Venturing Program including
Sea Scouts.

Any male Venturer who has achieved the First Class rank as a Boy Scout
in a troop or Varsity Scout in a team may continue advancement toward Star,
Life and Eagle Scout ranks up to his 18th birthday.

He must meet the requirements as prescribed in the official Boy Scout
Handbook and the current Boy Scout Requirements book.

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